Posts from and by Forum members.
Four of our members took part in the public participation section of the City of York full council meeting on 27th March 2025. Below is a text copy of their speeches.* You can also watch the speeches from 09:25 on the council’s webcast of the meeting. You can watch the council debate on the motion […]
Public Participation at CYC Full Council 27/03/25 Read More »
Hi, I’m Olivia. I’m a student at York St John University, and I’ve been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease since July 2019. My journey with Crohn’s has been anything but easy, but over the years I’ve come to learn that sharing my experiences is both healing and empowering – not just for myself, but for others
From Diagnosis to Podcast: Sharing my Crohn’s Story Read More »
A blog about how healthcare and medicine is designed for men, and how women and other marginalised genders continue to face barriers in healthcare.
Victorian Healthcare Read More »
The media rarely considers the impact of being disabled in war zones, apartheid states, colonised and exploited countries, and as a result our unique concerns and experiences go under the radar and are rendered invisible. As highlighted by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, everyone in Palestine is disabled right now. Whether from famine and lack of clean
Disability Invisibility in Conflict Read More »
In January 2021 Ben and I wrote a blog about the difficulties we faced in lockdown. Love, care and common sense got us through the Covid crisis. We were looking forward to better days. We weren’t expecting another crisis so soon! But come 2022, as an older carer, I needed to think about strengthening Ben’s
Thanks York Accessibility Action for this important post about why disabled people may need their vehicle, and how taking away parking is disabling us. Please note, you can download a longer version of this post. This post will offer a condensed version. In recent years we have seen an increasing number of local authorities explicitly
We recently published part 1 – But you don’t look disabled – where Lauren introduced herself and talked about not looking disabled. Now, in this blog, she’s focusing on work and daily living. Daily life isn’t that easy. This may shock you, but I do work. I love my current job and have the reasonable
Daily living, work and the power of reasonable adjustments Read More »
We’ve been talking to York Ending Stigma recently about their work and also what it’s like to have a physical impairment and poor mental health. Lauren, one of York Ending Stigma’s champions, has kindly written about this, and ideas of what disability looks like, for us. “But you don’t look disabled…” I’ve heard this quite
“But you don’t look disabled…” Read More »
Feeding Tube Awareness Week 2022 runs from 7th till 11th February and is, as the name suggests, a chance to increase awareness around feeding tubes! Helen from the Steering Group has had her feeding tube for a few years now and wanted to use this week as an opportunity to answer questions. Sometimes people have
Feeding Tube Awareness Week Q & A with Helen Read More »
Hazel writes about experiencing feelings of ‘not being disabled enough’ and the effect this has on disability identity. When growing up I essentially learnt that “disabled” only really meant physical things, in fact mainly visible ones. Disability was discussed as something to pity, as something that you could see, something that was obvious and could
‘Am I Disabled Enough?’ Imposter Syndrome and Invisible Disability Read More »
